Song Birds

 

Esther here  today with a cheery bird card featuring two  BRAND NEW stamp sets from the April Release.

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To create my card I stamped the Script Background stamp in wilted violet distress ink (Ranger) on purple card stock. I lightly stenciled the Delightfully Delicate Stencil in the same color in two corners and added two sentiments from Church Family. I attached a strip of lace die cut with the Doily Border Dies under the purple panel and glued it over a piece of white card stock stamped with bricks from Texture Tiles 2 .

The bird image is from the NEW Song Birds stamp set and was stamped in  Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink and colored with Arteza real brush pens. I used some foam mounting tape to pop it up off my card.

For My Friend

Happy Saturday Everyone! I am loving the chair in the new Let's Get Cozy set by Korin. I just want to curl up in it with a good book and a cup of tea.

I stamped the chair and coffee cups with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. I used my prima watercolors(woodland and tropicals) to color the images. I inked a white panel using orchid opulence ink and the delightfully delicate stencil. Love this stencil! I matted it on coordinating cardstock and then onto a grey card base.

I die cut the word friend from the same cardstock as the mat and glued them together. I fussy cut the chair and coffee cups. Then, I figured out placement of the pieces, stamped my friend in black ink and attached the images and sentiment. 

 

 

Let's Get Cozy

 Lots of Love

Delightfully Delicate Stencil 

Friend Word Die

I hope you enjoyed today's card and thanks so much for stopping by!

Karen

 

Vintage Ornaments

Hello Sweet 'n Sassy friends!

It's Ceal, here. Today I am sharing a couple cards using the new set Vintage Ornaments. This set also has matching dies so you can get the Bundle at a discounted price.

For all the deets on how I created these cards and a supply list head over to my blog, Simply Beautiful.

 

2021 National Coffee Day Blog Hop

Hi friends! It's Julee Tilman popping in with a super exciting blog hop today! We're so excited to once again be one of a long list of Super Sponsors for the National Coffee Day Blog Hop! This is a traditional blog hop hosted by the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog with prizes for commenting on the company blogs in the hop. Each of the stops on the hop are hosting their own giveaway, so you'll definitely want to grab yourself a cup of something awesome and hop along!

We've got a few caffeinated creations to share, along with our giveaway info, so be sure to read to the end and comment with one of your favorite coffee related sentiments for a chance to win! If you want to take a gander at our coffee/tea/cocoa stamp offerings, we're not going to stop ya! Or if you're into caffeinated digis, we've got those, too! {grin}

Speaking of stamp offerings, for my card today, I'm featuring a card made with my Fall Breeze stamp set. I stamped and colored the leaf cup image three times with Copic markers, then cut with the coordinating Fall Breeze Die Set. I did the same with the steam, then got to work on the backgrounds.  I used the Delightfully Delicate Stencil on the seafoam cardstock layer in grey ink.  The coffee word background is from the Texture Tiles 9 stamp set and I added a little of the same pattern of stenciling on it as well.  I finished with a sentiment from Sentimental Wordfetti.

My second card features my new Holiday Cheer Digi (this was formerly released with Verve as the Good Cheer Digi).

Some of our creative team members have a dose of caffeinated goodness they're sharing today:

Card by Lieschen features Fall Breeze, Sweet Treats, Coffee Talk, and Fall Leaves Stencil.

Card by Sheri features Fall Breeze.

Card by Michelle features Fill Me Up, Consider the Wildflowers, and Script Stencil.

Card by Esther features I Like Big Cups, Texture Tiles 9, Texture Tiles 4, and Coffee Word Die.

Card by Jane features I Like Big Cups, Autumn Gnomes, Jesus & Coffee, Coffee Talk 2, and Fall Leaves Stencil.

Alright, now it's time for the giveaway! Please leave a comment below telling us one of your favorite coffee related sentiments for a chance to win a $25 gift code to the Sweet & Sassy Stamps shop. Our giveaway will be open through 9:59PM Eastern on October 5. Winner will be announced here on the blog on Wednesday, October 6.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to leave a little shout-out in the comments for a chance to win. Then hop along to the next stop on the hop list below.  

The next stop on the hop is Therm O Web.

The full link list is below, see the Coffee Loving Cardmakers Blog for all the hop details.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Endless Love

 

Happy Monday! Esther here today sharing two cards using the BRAND NEW Endless Love stamp set designed by Julee Tilman! For my first card I created a fun Christmas shaker in bright and cheery colors. 

I used watercolors to paint the striped background before adding some text and splatters. To create the mottled effect on the hearts, I laid them on my distress oxide pads and lightly pressed in places.

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps:
• Endless Love 
• Psalm 23 Background
  
• Heart Die Set  
• Delightfully Delicate Stencil
  
• Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink 
• Christmas Candy Sprinkles (Kat Scrappiness)
• Acetate
  
• Watercolor Paints
• White acrylic paint splatters
  
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink (Ranger)
  
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger):
•  Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries
  

Click here to check out the entire September Release

My  second card uses the same stamp set for a fresh and clean encouragement card. I colored my images with Arteza real brush pens and fussy cut them before adding them to my white on white background. I love how the polka dots on the sentiment add a little extra "pop of interest" to the card.

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Supplies and Tools:

• From Sweet n Sassy Stamps
  
• Endless Love
  
• Texture Tiles 8
• Faith & Hope Word Dies 
• Arteza Real Brush Pens
• White Gel Pen
• Inspire Embossing Folder (Fun Stampers Journey)
• Elegant Ovals (Spellbinders)
  
• These colors of Distress Oxide (Ranger)
• Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries
  

Made with Love

I am smitten with the new Sweet Treats set! I am having a blast paper piecing the apron and playing with all the accessories! For today's project, I decided to make a Memorydex card also know as a Rolodex card. It was fun to create in a different way!

 

I started by finding my pattern paper and chose three coordinating patterns from my Ninth Street paper pack (The Paper Studio). I stamped the apron, oven mitts and bowl onto white cardstock with VersaFine Clair Nocturne ink. I stamped the apron and oven mitts onto the pattern paper making sure to stamp the towel portion of the apron a second time on a different pattern. I fussy cut all the pieces and assembled my apron and oven mitts.

I colored the bowl with a variety of watercolor brush pens and set aside to dry. I die cut my memorydex card(Heidi Swapp die) from Kraft cardstock. I added the first layer to the base with antique linen distress ink and the Delightfully Delicate stencil. Then, I distressed the edges with vintage photo distress ink and added little hints of blue with oceanside ink using a small stamp from Going Postal. 

I stamped the sentiment from Made New in ocenside ink and masked off one of the sentiments from Sweet Treats and stamped the bottom half with black. I assembled the card as seen, popping the oven mitts and bowl up with foam tape and adding a little bit of washi tape.

I hope you enjoyed today's project and have a great day!

Karen

Pretty Potted Florals and an Instagram Hop

Hi Sweet 'n Sassy friends! It's Julee. Instead of our usual mid-month Blog Hop, today we're putting on our first Instagram Hop! Be sure to head on over to Instagram and leave some comments for the designers for a chance to win a $25 gift code to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps online shop. The beginning of the hop and all the details can be found on our Instagram page:  https://www.instagram.com/sweetnsassystamps/

Along the hop, we're playing with a something old, something new theme. I am sharing a card which features one of my very first Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps purchases, Thoughtful Words, and my newest purchase... Pretty Potted Florals.  Both of these sets are illustrated by NinaB Designs and all of her sets are on sale this week! 

I started by stamping one of the potted flowers in Versafine Clair ink and then coloring with Zig Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush Markers and a blender pen. I then stamped just the flower portion again and colored just the inner flower and fussy cut to pop up for some dimension on the stamped image.

The sentiment is from the Thoughtful Words set, and I stamped onto a circle that I stenciled with the Delightfully Delicate Stencil and salvaged patina distress ink.  Some patterned papers from my stash finished things off.

While I was at it, I decided to make another card with Pretty Potted Florals.  This time I attempted  watercoloring with watercolor pans.  I'm a little out of practice and was way too heavy with my paints, so ended up blending out with watercolor markers, then adding some Copic highlights to add some depth.  I fussy cut the image and placed onto a panel I had used to wipe up some salvaged patina ink, then finished off with a sentiment from one of my all-time favorite sentiment sets... My Thoughts of You.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Be sure to check out this week's sale and I hope you'll join us over on Instagram for the hop!

March 2021 Release Hop Winner + Inspiration

Hi Sweet 'n Sassy friends! It's Julee popping in with a little inky inspiration and some happy news for one of you blog hoppers!

As always, we had so much fun sharing the current release with you on our March Blog Hop. We so hope you enjoyed it, too, and gleaned a little inspiration for using this month's stamps! While we think you're ALL winners, we did randomly select ONE lucky reader from among all the comments on the hop to receive a $25 gift certificate to the Sweet 'n Sassy shop. 

And the winner is...

Congratulations Laurie!

Please send an email to snssassistant@gmail.com to claim your prize.

Now onto a little inspiration from me using one of my favorite past releases... Birds & Blooms. I started out by stamping out the images in the set, then watercoloring with distress inks and fussy cutting.  My first card is a shaker, using the miss you sentiment and my horizontal panel was done with the Background Builders: Stripes set. The background is a blended and sprinkled with water distress ink background.

My next card used the branch image, and I added the Blessings Word Die, cut a few times and stacked, then ink blended for some color and dimension.  The background is done with the Delightfully Delicate Stencil.  I used up a frame left over from cutting the back of my shaker above, then layered everything together.

There's still a week to save during our Moving Sale! 

Enter code MOVING at checkout to receive
15% off sitewide, excluding bundles.

Sale ends March 31, 2021.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

-Julee

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March 2021 New Release Blog Hop + GIVEAWAY

Welcome to our March 2021 Release Blog Hop!

Who's loving all the fabulous new products this month? Well, you're in luck! There's a whole lot of inspiration, plus a chance to win a $25 gift code to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop to be found featuring the March release along today's hop! 

GIVEAWAY: Leave a little shout out in the comment section on each stop along the way for a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps shop. Comment deadline for the prize drawing is 10 pm ET on Tuesday, March 23. Winner will be announced here on the SNSS blog, Wednesday, March 24. Happy hopping!

Here's the official hop list. If a link misbehaves along the way,

hop on back here to pick  up where you left off.

Sweet 'n Sassy Blog
Julee Tilman
Ceal Pritchett
Diane Zechman
Esther Asbury
Jane Bosi
Karen Decknick
Lee Ann Barrett
Lieschen Harshbarger
Lyn Tomlin
Michelle Hale
Sheri Gilson

My card for today features the gorgeous dragonfly in the new Garden Whimsy set. I stamped the dragonfly on cardstock and colored with Copic markers, hand trimming just the body and wings.

Next I took a panel I had created as a "clean up" page from another use of the Delightfully Delicate Stencil. I loved the look of it and thought it would make a pretty background for my dragonfly.  So I stamped the dragonfly again where I wanted it on the background, then paper pieced my colored dragonfly, popping up the wings just a bit for a little texture. This set has some fabulous all occasion sentiments. I picked miss you for this one, stamped in black, then matted the panel in black and was finished.

Let's take a little gander at the March release...

First up is the March stamp of the month, Fern Background. This set is available for purchase for $11.95, OR you can get it as a FREE gift with a $60 purchase (after any discounts and before shipping and tax) during the month of March! Please note you MUST add this set to your cart to receive the discount. Once your order qualifies, the discount will automatically apply in your shopping cart.

We're so excited for the newest addition to our Texture Tiles line. These small repeatable backgrounds are perfect for creating backgrounds and texture on your projects.  We're seeing flowers and leaves in both outline and silhouette styles in our new Texture Tiles 11 set.

Bursting with promise is a our new Count Your Rainbows Bundle. These beautiful images are brought to us by Rebecca Rios. The bundle includes both the Creative Worship: Count Your Rainbows stamp set and coordinating die set bundled together at a discount. The stamp set and die set are also available separately at regular price.

Our next bundle brings us some adorable spring bunnies illustrated by Jenn Nillson. The Hoppy Spring Bundle includes both the Hoppy Spring stamp set and coordinating die set bundled together at a discount. The stamp set and die set are also available separately at regular price.

Our next set in the spotlight is the beautiful Everyday Greetings sentiment set from Korin Sutherland.

This month also brings us some more gnomes from Jenn Nilsson. The Gnome-one Like You set is so adorable!

No spring release would be complete without a butterfly, and Krista Hamrock has brought us a beautiful one in the Garden Whimsy set.

Along with new stamps and coordinating dies, we have two new stencils and a word die set debuting this month.

Blessings Word Die

Puffy Clouds Stencil

Starry Night Stencil

That's our March Release in a nutshell! So many fabulous sets to choose from! What's your favorite? Let us know in the comments.

Your next stop on the hop is my blog, Poetic Artistry.

May you be blessed today and always!

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